Global Warming

[IQS.RLOW]

Hang on...didn't we only have a decade to fix the problem?

[Rorschach]

Honestly SN you are being incredibly flakey about this... where exactly do you stand?

i stand behind the science that says we have warming, man has contributed to this however we have time to fix it. the world will not end tomorrow and we have up to 100 years before we are getting into big trouble.

So why all the crap you post re alarmism?
Why the reliance on alarmists?
Why do you keep referring to those who dissent an unproven hypothesis as deniers, when most don't in fact deny there has been warming at all?

Oh and what new hat did you pick the 100 year figure from?

[Rorschach]

Oh and SN


Consensus what Consensus?
What is the origin of the false belief—constantly repeated—that almost all scientists agree about global warming?
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1 ... 53136.html

[Lucas]

NASA are respected I would have thought.


http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence

The evidence for rapid climate change is compelling:

Sea level rise

Global sea level rose about 17 centimeters (6.7 inches) in the last century. The rate in the last decade, however, is nearly double that of the last century.4

Global temperature rise

All three major global surface temperature reconstructions show that Earth has warmed since 1880.5 Most of this warming has occurred since the 1970s, with the 20 warmest years having occurred since 1981 and with all 10 of the warmest years occurring in the past 12 years.6 Even though the 2000s witnessed a solar output decline resulting in an unusually deep solar minimum in 2007-2009, surface temperatures continue to increase.7

Warming oceans

The oceans have absorbed much of this increased heat, with the top 700 meters (about 2,300 feet) of ocean showing warming of 0.302 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969.8

Shrinking ice sheets

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have decreased in mass. Data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment show Greenland lost 150 to 250 cubic kilometers (36 to 60 cubic miles) of ice per year between 2002 and 2006, while Antarctica lost about 152 cubic kilometers (36 cubic miles) of ice between 2002 and 2005.

Declining Arctic sea ice

Both the extent and thickness of Arctic sea ice has declined rapidly over the last several decades.9

Glacial retreat

Glaciers are retreating almost everywhere around the world — including in the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alaska and Africa.10

Extreme events

The number of record high temperature events in the United States has been increasing, while the number of record low temperature events has been decreasing, since 1950. The U.S. has also witnessed increasing numbers of intense rainfall events.11

Ocean acidification

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the acidity of surface ocean waters has increased by about 30 percent.12,13 This increase is the result of humans emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and hence more being absorbed into the oceans. The amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the upper layer of the oceans is increasing by about 2 billion tons per year.

PRICELESS

[Super Nova]

PRICELESS

Yes, the scientists with real knowledge through measurement have a priceless contribution to make to the debate.

This is interesting

Global warming not uniform around the globe: Some areas were recently cooling

Date:May 4, 2014
Source:Florida State University

Summary:
New research shows the first detailed look at global land surface warming trends over the last 100 years, illustrating precisely when and where different areas of the world started to warm up or cool down
New research by a team of Florida State University scientists shows the first detailed look at global land surface warming trends over the last 100 years, illustrating precisely when and where different areas of the world started to warm up or cool down.

The research indicates that the world is indeed getting warmer, but historical records show that it hasn't happened everywhere at the same rate.

And that new information even took scientists by surprise.

"Global warming was not as understood as we thought," said Zhaohua Wu, an assistant professor of meteorology at FSU.

Wu led a team of climate researchers including Fei Ji, a visiting doctoral student at FSU's Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS); Eric Chassignet, director of COAPS; and Jianping Huang, dean of the College of Atmospheric Sciences at Lanzhou University in China. The group, using an analysis method newly developed by Wu and his colleagues, examined land surface temperature trends from 1900 onward for the entire globe, minus Antarctica.

Previous work by scientists on global warming could not provide information of non-uniform warming in space and time due to limitations of previous analysis methods in climate research.

The research team found that noticeable warming first started around the regions circling the Arctic and subtropical regions in both hemispheres. But the largest accumulated warming to date is actually at the northern midlatitudes. They also found that in some areas of the world, cooling had actually occurred.

"The global warming is not uniform," Chassignet said. "You have areas that have cooled and areas that have warmed."

For example, from about 1910 to 1980, while the rest of the world was warming up, some areas south of the equator -- near the Andes -- were actually cooling down, and then had no change at all until the mid 1990s. Other areas near and south of the equator didn't see significant changes comparable to the rest of the world at all.

The team's work is featured in the May 4 edition of the journal Nature Climate Change.

The detailed picture of when and where the world has warmed or cooled will provide a greater context to global warming research overall, Wu said.
Story Source:

The above story is based on materials provided by Florida State University. The original article was written by Kathleen Haughney. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 133207.htm

[Rorschach]

Honestly.... these people you seem so fervently to believe in, are continually moving the goalposts, and that proves just one thing... those of us you put in the denier basket were right all along.

[Lucas]

Honestly.... these people you seem so fervently to believe in, are continually moving the goalposts, and that proves just one thing... those of us you put in the denier basket were right all along.

It is themselves that are the real deniers. Through being gullible, following other loons who are just bent out of shape people looking for a cause, any cause, they cannot face the fact that what they believe in is all false. The funny thing is they follow so called scientists that ignore scientific data from satellites. It's pretty sad when even science proves you wrong and you claim science as your Allie.

[Rorschach]

It is a worry... even mantra posted stuff proving the IPCC motive was global wealth redistribution....

[Super Nova]

[Lucas]

Especially the Greens SN they held some of their meetings in Log Cabins oh the irony.